One can adjust the viewer to show all photos of sub-albums in the main album, and by this one can achieve the same effect of merging all photos of my friend and myself. In digiKam there is a strict connection between disk layout and album names – 1:1. So in short – Shotwell distinguishes between disk layout and album/event names. In Shotwell all the photos are in the same event, which is shown with title 05.21-22 Tanigakawadake Climbing within the 2016 year and May month. For example I have a folder 2016/05. with two sub-folders Norbert (for my photos) and Friend (for my friends photos). In my case I often have photos from two or more cameras (my camera and mobile, photos of friends), which I keep in separate directories within a main directory for the event. These events can have title and comment and collect a set of related photos. In Shotwell, your photos are organized into events, independent from their location on disk. Let us look at those aspects I am using: organization, offline, sharing, editing. I have been using Gnome since many years, and tried to convince myself to G3 for more than a year – until I threw out all of it but selected programs – but their number is going down. I am not interested in flame wars over Gnome versus KDE philosophy. Now before you run after me with a knife because you do not agree with me on the above, either read on, or stop reading.
Shotwell is Gnome 3 – that means – get rid of functionality.ĭigiKam is KDE – that means – provide as much functionality as possible. Now that sounds like they are very similar, but upon using them it turns out that there are huge differences, that can easily be summed up in a short statement:
I started using digiKam some month ago when I started to look for offloading parts of my photo library to external devices.
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And as a consequence I am using both in parallel.īefore I start a clear declaration: I have been using Shotwell for many years, and have myself contributed considerable code to Shotwell, in particular the whole comment system (comments for photos and events), as well as improved the Piwigo upload features. Both have their strength and their weaknesses.
There is no clear winner here, unfortunately. FotoXX seems to be very powerful, too, but I haven’t tested it till now. I have now used Shotwell and digiKam for quite some time, and collect here my experiences of strength and weaknesses of the two programs. There are several photo management softwares out there, I guess the most commonly used ones are Shotwell for the Gnome desktop, digiKam for the KDE world, and FotoXX. In my case I am talking about more than 50000 photos and videos measuring up to about 200Gb of disk space, constantly growing. As resolutions of cameras grow, the data we have to manage is ever growing.
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How to manage your photos? – That is probably the biggest question for anyone doing anything with a photo camera.
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